Dr Catherine Bateson

A screenshot of a TiKTok account called The Saxon Man that suggests that Anglo Saxons “blood goes back through Bronze Age farmers, Steppe warriors and Europes hunter-gatherers”. It also says other similar pseudo archaeological things but is basically bullshit

TikTok has some really interesting creators making up their own versions of Ancient DNA history, based on half-remembered cheese dreams from Victorian children’s books & a heavy dose of white supremacy

Our new brochure provides detailed overviews of our fascinating India collections, alongside key insights and imagery!

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Our latest "Document of the Week" was chosen by our Editor, Nishah Malik. This extract from Florence Nightingale’s correspondence shows how cleanliness, morality, and empire shaped responses to cholera.

Read the full post here: buff.ly/DVI3TkW

Using BBIH online: a help pack for students and lecturers For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.

Are you studying, researching or teaching histories of wetlands and the environment? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net

Trump wants to build a 250-foot-tall arch, dwarfing the Lincoln Memorial The president is eyeing a plot of land near Memorial Bridge. The art critic who proposed the idea called for a smaller arch or for Trump to pick a new site.

Historian here literally and symbolically Trump is hell bent on destroying the American republic, its constitution, and founding principles on its 250th. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

An introduction to @universalstc.bsky.social: an open access database of early modern print culture. To find out more visit our website: www.ustc.ac.uk

Pretty darn cool seeing a poster for my book talk in the window of The Reading Room when I popped into town today! 📚🇺🇸

You can sign up for my 23rd February talk in Grantham here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-republ... 🗃️

Bruce Springsteen singing his new song "Streets of Minneapolis" at our very own First Avenue. A place where amazing artists like Prince got their start - this venue means so much to our state and it's incredible to see Bruce bring our community together.

It was too wet to take a good photo of the building last week but the sun came out this week - very excited to be back teaching at Ithaca College London again this semseter! I've become very fond of this corner of London!

Treasures found on HS2 route stored in secret warehouse Archaeological finds from the planned HS2 train line have been shown exclusively to the BBC.

Treasures found on HS2 route stored in secret warehouse

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#archaeology
#history
#art

Why did I spend over 20 years reading, researching, and writing Civil War history when I could have just hopped on social media and have perfect strangers explain this history to me for free? 😂😆

Imagine West: A New Network for Young Scholars of the American West - British Association for American Studies ‘Imagine West’ is a new network for early career and doctoral researchers interested in the invention and disruption of ‘westness’ by literary and visual culture in the United States and around the…

🌵 ‘Imagine West’ is a new network for UK ECAs/PhDs interested in the invention/disruption of ‘westness’ by literary & visual culture.

Intro Call - 11th February / First Meeting - 4th March

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An interesting find from our rare book collection this week 🧐

Marine architecture: or directions for carrying on a ship, from the first laying of the keel to her actual going to sea. (author unknown). Published by William Mount 1736

Researchfish — Information for Researchers Regarding Researchfish Sunsetting After careful consideration, Elsevier have made the difficult decision to sunset Researchfish on July 31st 2027, when the product will no longer be availab

OOOOH

Researchfish

Is going extinct 🐡🐟🐠

help.researchfish.com/en_US/resear...

No Common Ground, Second Edition: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice

You can pre-order the 2nd edition. Now in paperback. 📘🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social #abolishice

The Republican House Divided: The Party of Lincoln to the Party of Trump? Join us as Dr. Tim Galsworthy discusses his new book The Republican House Divided.

I am very excited to announce that I will be delivering an online talk about my book "The Republican House Divided" on Wednesday 25th February. This free event is being organised by @yorkstjohn.bsky.social. I hope people can attend!

Please sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-republ...

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America’s bard at his best 🇺🇸🎸

We’ve grouped our extensive range of unique primary source collections under key historical themes! “Politics and Social Movements” contains 44 collections, totalling over 763,000 images!

Explore them at buff.ly/2nUGHsh.

Using BBIH online: a help pack for students and lecturers For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.

Are you studying, researching or teaching in the histories of Britain or Ireland? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), it contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net

Thank you to everyone who attended our "Trump 2.0" event last night. Wide-ranging questions from an engaged audience allowed for a fruitful discussion of Donald Trump's first 12 months back in the White House. Thank you also to our panellists for offering their time and their insightful thoughts 🇺🇸🗃️

I really enjoyed taking part in this discussion last night. We covered an array of topics – ICE, elections, Greenland, and much more – and tried to make some sense of Trump 2.0.

It was fantastic to see so many people on @lincolnbishopuni.bsky.social's campus and engaged in these conversations 🇺🇸🗃️

The Boss ❤️

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

There is still time to sign-up for tonight's free "Trump 2.0" event. Please see the poster below for more details 🇺🇸🗃️

Thank you to Frances Finn and BBC Radio Lincolnshire for having me on to talk about tonight's "Trump 2.0" event at @lincolnbishopuni.bsky.social, where we will be discussing the first 12 months of Donald Trump's second term as US President 🎓🇺🇸

I clearly have a face for radio! 🗃️

CFP: Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present (15-16 June, @uninorthampton.bsky.social) 🗃️We are interested in how nostalgia – which has often been associated with conservatism – is utilised by individuals, groups and movements that may be characterised as politically radical.

"Across the entire tech industry, an estimated, external 700,000 people have been laid off over the last four years, according to Layoffs.fyi, which tracks job cuts."

This is the biggest targeted training programme since Harold Wilson started the Open University (note).

Open to all UK adults online, taking as little as under 20 minutes, the courses will give

founding partners - Accenture, Amazon, Barclays, BT, Google, IBM, Intuit, Microsoft, Sage, SAS and Salesforce to take the Al Skills Boost programme to the next level and upskill 10 million workers with Al skills by 2030.

The government’s suggestion that rolling out 20 minute courses on writing “AI“ prompts, sponsored by Google, Microsoft and Amazon, is somehow comparable to the founding of the Open University (the Wilson government‘s, & Jennie Lee’s, proudest achievement), is an insult to our human intelligence.

Philip Glass pulls world premiere from Kennedy Center The pioneering composer announced that “the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message” of his Symphony No. 15: “Lincoln.”

Breaking news: Composer Philip Glass withdrew his highly anticipated Symphony No. 15 from its scheduled Kennedy Center performance, saying “the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony.”

The cover of The Crown's Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas--out TODAY with Mariner!

Out today: THE CROWN'S SILENCE

I'm delighted to share that my new book is officially out! It traces the British monarchy's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and colonial slavery over hundreds of years. Please buy a copy, tell your library, & spread the word. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...